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Burlington Maple Mews LCBO has bombers of Cameron's RPA with a brew date of J1515.
Burlington Woodview Place LCBO has Nickel Brook Naughty Neighbour with a date of Oct. 16, 2015. Probably can find fresher though.

Nevermind about Finest Kind. I'm still waiting on Harvest Ale to come to TBS.

Loving the thought of getting my hands on some more of the sweet sweet Samuel Smith's IS.

I stopped by the brewery in January. All 6-packs were labelled H1914 ( August ?) I bought one anyway, silly me. The beer was well past it's prime. I emailed them to express my disappointment. No response. RPA is off my list until I see some really fresh stuff. All I can get is H. Did they stop maki...

JeffPorter wrote: I find that RPA usually holds up really well for a 2-3 months.

Has anyone been to the brewery lately and picked up decently fresh RPA? All I can find from Grimsby to Burlington in the LCBO or Beer Store are sixers packaged from last August.

Nice job LCBO.

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spinrsx wrote:anyone pick up a Buxton yet? What's the bottle (or best before) date?

Picked a couple up today and the best before date on them is August 2014.

spinrsx wrote:same.. wonder why they stopped dating

Someone asked about it on their facebook page and they mentioned how their printer broke down. That was near the first half of November though.

Droogy wrote: Anything that I've seen these days is BB November so I've avoided it

I've had the same experience as well for the last couple of months.

Good to know. Thanks for the quick reply!

spinrsx wrote:this site might help:

http://freshbeeronly.com/

Really good site and I bookmarked it. Thanks.

Only thing is that there is no listing of Nickel Brook on the list. I was wondering what is the order of their brew date if anyone knows. Would it happen to be MM/DD/YYYY?

Actually I did purchase a sixer of Naughty Neighbour in August that was really fresh. It is good and I'll keep an eye out for the new batch. Mad Tom and especially Smash Bomb don't sell a lot in my area (Stoney Creek) unfortunately. They are both great and would purchase regularly if I find fresher ...

Slim chance with what I have been seeing at the LCBO this September, but I'm bumping this thread to see if anyone spots any fresh IPAs. Preferably Founders, Elysian (they even have a date anywhere on the bottle/box?), West Coast (lol) or anything really.

I was able to grab some Bridge Burner, Patricks, Amsterdam's Spring Bock! I grabbed some Jaipur as well but noticed that the best before was July 2012?? Still good? Anyone else notice this? Yep. Just came back from a store that had 4 bottles with the expiry date of July 24, 2012 and heavy sediment....

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